News source: China Times/Reported by Lin Zhicheng
News link:https://www.thenewslens.com/article/87210

In response to the upcoming 12-year national education curriculum, the Ministry of Education today announced the implementation of the "Reference Principles for Implementing Cross-Field and Cross-Subject Collaborative Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools". When more than two teachers conduct collaborative teaching for the same class of students, the number of teaching hours for that class , at most 2 sections are planned.

That is, if 2 teachers teach the same class of students, at most 2 periods will be counted, and each teacher will be counted as teaching 1 period; if 3 teachers teach at the same time, at most 2 periods will be counted. How is the number of teaching hours for each teacher calculated? , discussed by the school class meeting.

Nowadays, collaborative teaching can be promoted in elementary and middle schools, but it is not common. One of the reasons is that if it is to be carried out, teachers will ask "how to calculate the number of lessons?" Primary and secondary school teachers have a fixed number of teaching periods each week, and the number of periods varies for different subjects. However, between 14 and 18 periods, the Ministry of Education is planning to uniformly adjust it to 16 periods.

Wu Xiaoxia, head of the National Education Bureau of the Ministry of Education, said that after the implementation of the 12-year national education curriculum, flexible learning courses must be conducted in a thematic and topic-based manner. Therefore, cross-field (such as Chinese liberal arts and arts) and cross-subjects (such as history) The teaching situation of science subjects will be more common. How to calculate the teaching hours is an issue that teachers are concerned about.

Wu Xiaoxia said that when teachers conduct collaborative teaching, team members must jointly prepare lessons, teach, evaluate learning, and provide professional feedback after class, and all members must have teaching experience; when collaborative teaching requires teaching hours, a course plan should be submitted The drawings shall be reviewed and approved by the school curriculum development meeting, and the school curriculum plan shall be submitted to the county and municipal government for future reference.

How are the teaching hours of individual teachers calculated during collaborative teaching? According to the "Reference Principles for the Implementation of Cross-Field or Cross-Subject Collaborative Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools" promulgated by the Ministry of Education, when collaborative teaching is implemented in this class, when more than 2 members teach students in the same class, the number of teaching periods in this class shall be at most Counts 2 sections.

Wu Xiaoxia said that collaborative teaching in primary and secondary schools is usually carried out by two teachers together, so a total of 2 lessons are counted, and each teacher can count 1 lesson; collaborative teaching by more than 3 teachers is relatively rare, but it is possible will occur, but at most, only 2 periods can be allocated. How to allocate them will be discussed and decided by each school's curriculum development meeting.

After collaborative teaching becomes common, it may cause many teachers to teach more than the stipulated 16 lessons per week, and schools must allocate hourly fees to cope. Wu Xiaoxia said that the school can pay for the extra hourly fees from the funds originally reserved for full-time posts, or it can ask the local government for help.